Australian climate researcher Jennifer Marohassy has investigated the claim of our country's Bureau of Meterology that 2016 has been the hottest on record. An extract from her post: " The hottest summer was perhaps in 1938-39; at Rutherglen this summer was a full 2oC hotter than the 10 most recent summers - including the last summer of 2015-16. Indeed, there is nothing unprecedented about recent temperatures in Australia. Rather, there is compelling evidence that the Bureau of Meteorology remodels historical temperature data until it conforms to the human-caused global warming paradigm."